Bicycles – dangerous in the hands of ill prepared riders.
Police, Monterey Fire Department and MR Ambulance were sent to an injury crash at 12:23 p.m. Monday in the area of Central Avenue and 14th Street in Pacific Grove.
The bicyclist was suffering from a laceration above her left eye and additional head trauma.
The investigation found the woman was riding her bicycle without a helmet eastbound on Central Avenue approaching 14th Street when she collided with the rear of a 2005 Honda Accord.
Self sustaining before it was a UN buzz phrase. One of the few remaining events that are not capitalized on. Flutter on, little chrysalis’ and butterflies.
On a sunlit, 80-plus degree Saturday morning in Pacific Grove, several hundred kids dressed up as insects, sea creatures, farmers, artists, pioneers, clowns and healthy vegetables for the 75th annual Butterfly Parade and Bazaar.
A few parents, grandparents, babies and dogs dressed for the occasion, too.
The popular, don’t-you-wish-you-lived-here event is a rite of passage for Pacific Grove grade-schoolers. As they move from kindergarten to fifth grade, they get promoted from caterpillars to monarch butterflies, lady bugs, bumble bees, jellyfish, otters, farmers, pioneers, gold miners and, finally, clowns.
They gather in their handmade costumes in front of Robert Down Elementary School to pose for the paparazzi, then convene with their classmates for a 1-square-block strut that starts and ends on Pine Avenue.
Residents closest to the most ghetto Pacific Grove have some real paranoia. Meth labs, street races and Wal Mart stores.
Project site neighbor John McClure said the development would “smell like a meth lab” and be as “noisy as a drag strip.”
A woman who said she was a licensed real estate broker argued property values were being “seriously damaged even by the rumors of this project.”
Another nearby resident said he was “horrified” when he heard about the project after paying “top dollar” for his home because it was located in an area where there are no Walmarts, Targets, 7-11 stores — or apartments.
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Remember the stories of people claiming to get sick at the mere mention of spraying?
The moths will eat almost any plant species and pose a risk to the farming industry. “There are almost 2-thousand species of plants that they will feed on and they are very damaging so it does result in a reduction of their harvest,” said Lowerison. Right now areas of Morro Bay and Cayucos are under quarantine. Meaning some crops need to be inspected before being shipped out or sprayed with an approved pesticide.
In years past tactics for killing the insect have been much more aggressive. When the moth showed up in Monterey County years ago the USDA began using aerial spraying, at times over neighborhoods. The strategy set off protests and law suits.
Olinger was killed in Pacific Grove sixteen years ago.
The jury found that Jacobo Ruelas and his younger brother, Angel Ruelas, who had earlier plead guilty to the crime, fatally stabbed Olinger, a 17-year-old Pacific Grove resident, during a carjacking and robbery on Sept. 18, 1997. Angel Ruelas, 33, pleaded guilty in April 2012 and was sentenced to life without parole, the same sentence faced by the elder brother. Jacobo Ruelas will sentenced Oct. 30.
This one is said to be for technology upgrades.
Do we not learn from stories about kids hacking school issued iPads and spending learning time watching twerking videos and clicking around on Facebook all day?
Taxpayers in the Pacific Grove Unified School District will be asked in November to pay for the technology — such as tablets for students and teachers — with a $28-million bond strictly designed for such uses. The money would be spent in intervals over time, such as every three to five years. The idea is to create a funding stream to replace worn or obsolete technology as needed.
Pacific Grove has about 2,000 students and would work with a local committee, with representatives from various groups, on how best to spend the money. The school system has various types of computers and would have to determine its technology needs.
28,000,000 divided by three years – 9,333,333. Divided amoungst 2,000 students = $4,666.00 per student.
(L.A. Times)
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If a fire starts, they may just let it burn rather than risk firefighters’ lives.
In a fire, seconds count, and that was why firefighters were speaking out Saturday about the consequences of an added obstacle sprouting up on Bay Area rooftops: solar panels.
Solar panels covered part of the roof of a Piedmont home that was destroyed by a 2-alarm fire on Tuesday.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation Saturday, but Piedmont Fire Chief Warren McLaren was clear with reporters after the blaze was extinguished that the home’s solar panels made fighting the fire that much more difficult.
“Oh absolutely, it made it hard on the roof,” said McLaren.
Concern over solar panels prompted a 2010 report from the Fire Protection Research Foundation that said that the panels were not only potential hazards for tripping or slipping, but the additional weight from the panels contributed to the possibility that the roof would collapse.
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Rest in peace.
Rod Herndon reportedly died of a heart attack.
According to police, a passerby noticed Herndon lying under the scoreboard behind the team room near the west end of the retaining wall at the south end of the field but thought he was resting. “After approximately 30 minutes, the person decided to check on the subject after noticing the body had not changed positions,” the officer wrote.According to several obituaries about Herndon, he was a Marine who served in Vietnam, was married to Elaine Herndon for 33 years, and had one son, Andrew, who is a police officer in New Mexico. Services were held for him this week, and he will be interred in the San Joaquin National Cemetery
Buck didn’t want to stay in the car or become venison..
She said the animal “looked angry” as he charged the car and then hit the little Chrysler 200 — “I guess he liked it,” she said — shattered the passenger-side headlight and flew over it, his hooves striking a cooler in the backseat.
After the animal flipped over their heads, Tetreau was convinced he was stuck in the rear seat and thought she could hear him breathing, but by the time she slammed on the brakes and pulled over, the buck had vanished. Or, as the Pacific Grove police officer who took Tetreau’s report had written it, “the deer had fled the scene.”
“He was perfectly fine, which is bizarre to me,” she said. “I was hoping I killed it, because I would have liked to have some deer meat — it’s expensive and it’s healthy for you.”
The Mvsevm is becoming less about the natural history of Pacific Grove and more of a substainability re-education camp.
The decades-old fetus was discovered in the basement of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in 2011 before museum officials — uncomfortable with having it around — gave it to the city’s police department for safekeeping. The city recently donated the specimen to the university.
Both CSUMB and Monterey Peninsula College were interested in taking the specimen, which caused a minor power struggle when it was found two years ago. While former museum board member Esther Trosow argued the specimen — which had been kept in a jar of alcohol — should be kept at the museum as part of its “cultural patrimony,” Frutchey said it shouldn’t be returned because it hadn’t received “the respect it deserved.”
